> OS 9 loads the drivers for hard drives off of a special partition at > the beginning of the disk. OS X does not use these, so you can use a > drive in OS X that cannot be used in OS 9. I don't see how your disk > can be usable, let alone bootable in OS 9 if it does not have a > driver partition.
Thanks Charles. I did solve my problem (after 5 days). I have an Acard 6280M that has ATA133 support. I saw a great deal where I could get a Maxtor 80GB 133 Drive for $80 after the mail-in-rebate So I bought it thinking that it would completely work w/my card, since Acard is the only supporter of this spec for Mac. It turns out that I have had nothing but nightmares with this setup. I currently have an ATA 100 drive that has been working fine with this same controller for number of months now. But when I hooked up the 133 drive, I couldn't initialize it under 9, but I could under X. When I booted back into 9, the drives were visible (because I checked the 9 drivers option) but would get really bad read errors. The weird thing was that they were fully operational under X, but not under 9. So I unchecked the OS 9 driver box, and just went for X drivers. But the problem remained: if I wanted to boot into this partition, I couldn't do it from 9. So to make a long story short, I took the drive + controller to work and initialized it on my B&W G3, took it home and it worked better on my s900 under 9. It still has read errors, but it can get me into X, and that's all that really matters to me. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
